Silicon-Based Hybrid Nanoparticles

The hybridization of silicon nanoparticles with other semiconductors or metal oxides nanoparticles may exhibit superior features, when compared to lone, individual nanoparticles. These new hybrid approaches can overcome the limits of single components, improve properties, and achieve new properties and multiple functionalities for single nanoparticles. In addition, these nanohybrids can be synthesized in-situ directly onto the silicon wafers, producing Lab-on-a-chip platforms. The silicon/iron oxide hybrid nanoparticles also possess excellent fluorescence, super-paramagnetism, and biocompatibility that can be effectively used for the diagnostic imaging system in vivo. Similarly, gold-silicon nanohybrids could be used as highly efficient near-infrared hyperthermia agents for cancer cell destruction. Silicon-Based Hybrid Nanoparticles: Fundamentals, Properties, and Applications focuses on the fundamental principles and promising applications of silicon-based hybrid nanoparticles in nanoelectronics, energy storage/conversion, catalysis, sensors, biomedicine, environment and imaging. It is an important reference source for materials scientists and engineers who are seeking to understand more about the major properties and applications of silicon-based hybrid nanoparticles. Outlines major thermal, electrical, optical, magnetic, and toxic properties of silicon-based hybrid nanoparticlesDescribes major applications in energy, environmental science and catalysisAssesses the major challenges to manufacturing silicon-based nanostructured materials on an industrial scale